In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.