Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

How boring just to be a body.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.