Sanity is a cozy lie.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.