taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.