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

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

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

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.