Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

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