Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.