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

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.