A good book is an education of the heart.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire