Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.