Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

What we need is to use what we have.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.