Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.