What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

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.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

All publicity works upon anxiety.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.