The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

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