In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

I see what those people [veterans] are going through. To see a doctor, sometimes it takes six and seven days and then you finally get there and the doctor is gone on vacation.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.