Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.