“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”

“Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.”

“I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.”

“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.”

“Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”

“Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.”