Occupation: Writer Birth: January 16, 1933 Death: December 28, 2004
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation..
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall..
The only interesting ideas are heresies.
Life is a movie; death is a photograph..
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 ….
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….
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list..
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you..
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….
Today everything exists to end in a photograph..
It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few ve….
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude..
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses..
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions..
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….
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for ….
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings..
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes..
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..
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own..
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas..