I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. Votes: 12
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Votes: 11
Sanity is a cozy lie. Votes: 0
Cancer is a demonic pregnancy. Votes: 0
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art Votes: 0
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. Votes: 0
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. Votes: 0
Most of my reading is rereading. Votes: 0
It is passivity that dulls feeling. Votes: 0
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production. Votes: 0
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. Votes: 0
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Votes: 0
Art is a form of consciousness. Votes: 0
Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself. Votes: 0
Art is seduction, not rape. Votes: 0
Courage is morally neutral. Votes: 0
Desire has no history... Votes: 0
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view. Votes: 0
God, living is enormous! Votes: 0
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... Votes: 0
How boring just to be a body. Votes: 0
Ideas disturb the levelness of life Votes: 0
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. Votes: 0
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. Votes: 0
In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one. Votes: 0
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall. Votes: 0
It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling. Votes: 0
My ignorance is not charming. Votes: 0
My skull is crammed with quotations. Votes: 0
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. Votes: 0
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. Votes: 0
Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. Votes: 0
Passion paralyzes good taste. Votes: 0
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad. Votes: 0
Photographers are always imposing Votes: 0
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. Votes: 0
Taste has no system and no proofs. Votes: 0
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . Votes: 0
The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded. Votes: 0
To travel is to shop. Votes: 0
We are ruled by quotations. Votes: 0
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive. Votes: 0
What we need is to use what we have. Votes: 0
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through. Votes: 0
Writing is a mysterious activity. Votes: 0
You can always be quoted. Votes: 0