To photograph is to confer importance.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.

Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.