The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures