All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by ...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There ...

I don't like America enough to want to live anywhere else except Manhattan. And what I like about Manhattan is that it's full of foreigners.

105 quotes from Regarding the Pain of Others: 'To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.'

May 13, 2021 · “Nobody demands that photography be literate. Nobody can imagine how it could be authoritative. Nobody understands how anything, least of all a ...

Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, ...

The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say, 'There is the surface. Now think - or rather feel, intuit - what is beyond it, what the reality must be ...

That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it can be tender and involve a desire to hug or whatever.

Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now.