Communism is fascism with a human face.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

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

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.