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

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.

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