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.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

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

Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.