Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.