Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world