Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

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.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Art is a form of consciousness.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

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

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.