How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

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

I hate travelling and explorers

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

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

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.