By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.