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.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

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.

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.

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

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.