Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

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

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.