You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events..

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the ….

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory..

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is w….

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the ….

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death..

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's s….

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewh….

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice..

All creation is in the art of seeing..

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal..

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak..

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time..

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. ….

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the….

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the ….

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities ….

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence..

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one pla….

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image….

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time..