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.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

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

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

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

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.