Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.