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

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

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

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.