He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.