When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
Between skin and skin, there is only light.
...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.