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.

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

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

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.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.