A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

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

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.