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

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

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.