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"The cinema more than any other art is particularly bound up with love. The novelist in his relations to his characters needs intelligence more than love; understanding in his form of loving. If the art of Shaplin were to be transposed into literature, it would tend to lapse into sentimentality.

Andre Bazin quoted by Camby NYT p29 12.26.77

...one has the impression that the camera is more important than the people being photographed. Somehow one feels that people have become its fuel, to be used up as the camera moves on to others, and to others after that. The camera doesn't automatically refine raw material into art. In this case, it appears to consume it...

Vincent Canby pC14 NY Times Jan 18. 1978

Like so many good-hearted, soft-headed admirers of the Saint James (Agee) version of poverty in America "Let Us Now Praise

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Famous Men" Dr. Coles is enthralled by the windy, woolly style of the saint, unaware that the only numinous presence in that book is Walker Evans, whose austere photographs are so at odds with Agee's tumescent (the photographers have stolen "turgid"; we'll never get it back) text.

Gore Vidal NY Review of Books p9 Feb. 9. 1978

1. Only by reaching to the work of a more highly articulated culture can your own interior energy come forth.

2. The rational structure of our culture is a form of energy. The student goes through it, not around it.

3. No dependent person can make progress.

4. Spiritual instruction without the presence of women is worthless.

Robert Bly NY Times Books Review Jan 22.78. p7

Every Passion borders on the chaotic. -

Walter Benjamin