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

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

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.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.