“There is no one right way to experience what I’ve written… I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.”
“There is no one right way to experience what I’ve written… I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.”
“One of the effects of the newer camera technology (video, instant movies) has been to turn even more of what is done with cameras in private to narcissistic uses.”
“So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. […] The image-surfeited are likely to find sunsets corny; they now look, alas, too much like photographs.”
“… interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
“What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
“All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up!”
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“Let the atrocious images haunt us. … This is what human beings are capable of doing– may volunteer to do, enthusiastically, self-righteously. Don’t forget.”
“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”
“Being photographed… I feel transfixed, trapped… I become the looked-at… For as much as I am a professional seer, I am a hopelessly amateur see-ee. An eternal photographic virgin. I feel the same perplexity each time I’m photographed.”