The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.