The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

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

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.