Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

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

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.