Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.