I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

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