Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Love dies because its birth was an error.