The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.