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

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.