Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
