That is what art should do. It should make the world blush and give up its secrets.

“This is what good art does. It takes a pebble in the road, or a human being, and it concentrates on them until they begin to glow.

I think the concept and the notion of blushing is very important in art, and in my kind of art.

You know, the artist concentrates on the detail of the object until it blushes in the way the love object blushes when a lover gazes at it with that particular intense gaze.

That is what art should do.

It should make the world blush and give up its secrets.”

~John Banville