Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.