Communism is fascism with a human face.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.