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

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.