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" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

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" 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. "

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

" Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. "

" 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. "

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

" To photograph is to confer importance. "

" Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. "

" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

" 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 America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

" The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. "

" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

" 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. "

" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

" The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. "

" The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. "

" Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. "

" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "

" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "

" Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. "

" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "

" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

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" To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. "

" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. "