The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

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

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.