Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.
A good book is an education of the heart.
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.