In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

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

Most of my reading is rereading.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.