There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism