The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.