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

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

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.