Courage is morally neutral.
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.