On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.