To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.