In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.