If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.