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.

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.