All Possibility Of Understanding Is Rooted In

Art Is The Most General Condition Of The Past In The Present. ... Perhaps No Work Of Art Is Art. It Can Only Become Art, When It Is Part Of The Past. In This Normative Sense, A 'contemporary' Work Of Art Would Be A Contradiction - Except So Far As We Can, In The Present, Assimilate The Present To The Past.

To Be An Artist Or A Writer Is To Be This Weird Thing - A Hand Worker In An Era Of Mass Production.

A Writer, I Think, Is Someone Who Pays Attention To The World.

Passion Paralyzes Good Taste.

Sight Is A Promiscuous Sense. The Avid Gaze Always Wants More.