Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.