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.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

How boring just to be a body.

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.