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.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

To be naked is to be oneself.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

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

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