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- Napoleon had a fierce desire for order, and his desire for order made him very energetic ... Napoleon felt deeply that all men had to do with each other and that the injustices of the past should be changed into something which called forth the abilities of all people. On the one hand we see in him a tremendous desire for democracy, and on the other a tremendous ego, a tremendous desire for power. The confusions ... point to the confusions in us. We want to be welcomed by the masses, yet we want to nourish our selfish souls. (en)
- Siegel: There is a tendency on your part to separate the deep perception of reality. And one of the things you have to go after is to feel that when you are feeling good you are just as deep as when you are feeling bad. And this I don't think you have felt yet. Take the fight between Delacroix and Ingres. Ingres went after outline and shape and something comparatively restrained, and Delacroix went after much motion and color. Now is that warfare in you?
Koppelman: Yes.
Siegel: It takes many forms. You won't be free about art until your motion, your ripple, your flow is seen as the same as your exactness, your rigidity, your grimness. I think you think you are deepest when you are suffering. Do you see what I mean? (en)
- The way etching is both critical and kind, I came to love. It has a digging, critical, biting quality. Yet it can also make for effects of the gentlest lights and shadows. Etching is at once gentle and sharp – and I wanted to put these opposites together in myself. When I take the etching needle in my hand the shifting becomes fixed, the in-between definite, the dim clear, the hidden seen, the teasing full-throated. (en)
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