To photograph is to confer importance.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

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.

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.