[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

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

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.