All publicity works upon anxiety.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

All creation is in the art of seeing.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

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

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together