Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.