What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

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

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.