A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.