Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.
I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.
The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.
All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.
When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.
I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo-Conservatives.
There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.
In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.
I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.
[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.
War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.
I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.
The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute
Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.
War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.