Sensual, vivid, masterful: Paul Nizon has written art critiques alongside his literary works for decades. They reveal the PhD art historian as a keen observer and sharp analyst, an empathetic word artist beyond a standardized way of seeing, who finds connections among painters and sculptors. The "animation" of van Gogh's landscapes, the "self-actualization" on Jackson Pollock's canvases—these fuel the radical quest for self and life that Nizon continues to pursue in his novels and journals to this day. For the first time in a selection volume, Paul Nizon's essays and portraits from sixty years come together to form a personal museum of modern art: from Goya to Turner, to Hodler, Klimt, and Munch, from Picasso and Malevich to Soutine and Miró, up to Morandi, Rothko, and Giacometti.