The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
From Jerzy Kosinski
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
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