To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

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

All creation is in the art of seeing.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.