As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.