The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

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.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.