Why is it better to last than to burn?.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life..

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures c….

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what ….

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform..

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound..

...language is never innocent..

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene..

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being h….

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastr….

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion….

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead..

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as….

If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or a….

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of….

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it..

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is..

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the n….

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it noth….

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion..