In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.