...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

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

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.