The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.