Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.