Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.