Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

You can always be quoted.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.