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

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.