Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.