The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.