Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

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 function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.