I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.