The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.