I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.
You're the Picasso of pain.
The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.
We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.