Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.