I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

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

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

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.