All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

I hate travelling and explorers

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.