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 process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.