The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.