Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

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

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.