To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

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

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.