Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.