Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

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

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.