The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

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.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.