The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

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

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.