My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

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

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

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.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.