Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
