Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.