Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself