Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.