It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility ….

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day a….

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies not….

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it..

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of ab….

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for….

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public..

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night..

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap betwee….

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it i….

You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The ….

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true ..

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the quali….

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is eve….

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial thoug….

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death..

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it….

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special column….

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashi….

Power floats like money, like language, like theory..