What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

Most works of art like most wines ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life every hour and minute of every day and you can grasp the source of this paranoia this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and now evolutionary biology.

I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.