…it was like the sistine chapel sistine chapel altar altar, except that except that instead of the kind of light you get in Caravaggio or somebody like that there was a kind of, oh you know the sort of thing Matthias Grunwald is doing in his…

…you know what you mean and speak precisely I mean all mean all these words have meaning. You know sistine chapel altar light like Caravaggio, modified as the way grunwald did it and so forth and so on so so somehow by, and it's and it's still an…

…Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, John Chrysostom, comparing the light falling into the folds of his trousers to the light of Caravaggio and Duccio and Fra Angelico, and I was amazed. I had never heard such carryings on. Well now, if you go back…

…your summer house on Ibiza. It's nothing compared to the richness of the imagination. Not William Blake's imagination or Donatello or Caravaggio, but your imagination. There's more and better art in your head than is hanging on the walls of the great…

…an intuition. It's not clear to me that it's ever been exactly articulated as a philosophy. But this is what the light of Caravaggio and, you know, the recessional distances of the brothers van Eyck and, you know, Turner and all of this stuff, it's going…

…and perfected. And for me, I think it's probably perfected in Jan van Eyck, the altarpieces of the Van Eyck brothers, or Caravaggio or, you know, by the time you get to Bella's and the mannerists, something else is happening. It's like they've overshot…

…angling toward it for 250 years from Pier della de Francesca and Duccio and that crowd on until they got actually to Caravaggio and the prospectivists. There was this sense of this thing breaking through, and then it crystallized. Well, I, having gone to…

…say. Well, how come I'm not seeing a archetypes and b things which somebody else, you know, I don't know, dully and soar. Caravaggio Bosch. Somebody should have seen this stuff and gotten it down. And there didn't seem to be a trail through the history…

…your summer house on Ibiza. It's nothing compared to the richness of the imagination. Not William Blake's imagination or Donatello or Caravaggio, but your imagination. There's more and better art in your head than is hanging on the walls of the great…