It is passivity that dulls feeling.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

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.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.