The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.

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.