Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

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 creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.