A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

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

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.

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

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.