Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.