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.

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

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

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.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

To be naked is to be oneself.