The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.