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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Art is the proper task of life.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.

Critics have their purposes, and they’re supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

I’ve always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.