To be naked is to be oneself.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.

When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)

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

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.