Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

My library is an archive of longings.

There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.