Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.