To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

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

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.