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

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

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

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

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

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.