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" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "

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" 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. "

" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "

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

" The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. "

" What is 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 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. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

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

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

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

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

" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "

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

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "