Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.