common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

Cinema is like dream.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.