In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''