Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.