Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.