I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness..

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what c….

Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes ….

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth..

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve..

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me..

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark..

The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the l….

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: ….

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin..

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an ….

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The s….

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering..

Painting can feign reality without having seen it..

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood..

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion….

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "auth….

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of sa….

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the….

The photographic image... is a message without a code..