Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

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

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.