Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.