Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

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

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.