Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

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'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.