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" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "

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

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "

" 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. "

" What we need is to use what we have. "

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

" I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. "

" 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. "

" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

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

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "

" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "

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

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

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

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

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

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

" 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. "

" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "