"No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain." - Susan Sontag

No one extraordinary appears to be entirely contemporary. People who are contemporary don’t appear at all: they are invisible.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature—the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society—it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what’s there.