The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.