Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours. Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

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.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.