The necessary condition for an image is sight.

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

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

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.