Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.