The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.