I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.