The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

The white race is the cancer of human history.