What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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 ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
