To photograph is to confer importance.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

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

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.