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

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

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.