The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.