We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.