All creation is in the art of seeing.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

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

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal