When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

My library is an archive of longings.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.