I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.