Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Trust in God, the only wise God.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.