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

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

Photographers are always imposing

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.