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

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

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.

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.