Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

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

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

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

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past