A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.