We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

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