Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.