The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

We make to ourselves pictures of facts. The picture is a model of reality

Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.