You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

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

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.