I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

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.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

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.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.