I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

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

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.