The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

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

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

All publicity works upon anxiety.