Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

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

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.