To collect photographs is to collect the world. - Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

I am only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility . . . Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.