Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

My dreams may be nonsense too, but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

You are unique in the world, a friend like no other. It’s so amazing that we have so much in common so your happiness is also mine.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

None saies his Garner is full.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.