Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

My skull is crammed with quotations.