To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

The necessary condition for an image is sight.

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.