The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own..

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine..

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas..

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes..

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it….

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have..

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings..

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears..

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads..

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude..

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you..

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list..

The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civili….

Today everything exists to end in a photograph..

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attentio….

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in eithe….

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for ….

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few ve….

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions..

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the ….

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses..