I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life. Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

The necessary condition for an image is sight.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.