The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties