A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

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

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

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

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