So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

To travel is to shop.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.