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.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

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

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

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.