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

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.