What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.