'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always “over there,” with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And “terrorist” is a more flexible word than “communist.” It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.