Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
When you’re O. C. D. , you want the most beautiful animals.
Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.
We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.
My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile. . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
If you're reading this. . . Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.