Photography is the product of complete alienation.

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.