You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.