What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.
What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.