The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

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.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.