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

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.

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

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.