Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.