Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.