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.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

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

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

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

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Courage is morally neutral.