Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

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

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

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

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

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature