I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

Art is a form of consciousness.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

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