What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
— Susan Sontag
It is not the position, but the disposition.
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
What we need is to use what we have.
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Sanity is a cozy lie.
