I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples..

Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of singularity (to….

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscienc….

Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of….

The new is not a fashion, it is a value..

What love lays bare in me is energy..

For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the obje….

Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for ….

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists..

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience..

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummatio….

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am..

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does ….

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see..

Every exploration is an appropriation..

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?.

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is w….

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image i….

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly fr….

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death..

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental..