The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
真相是平衡,但真相的对立面——不平衡——未必是谎言。
The function of art is to disturb, not to reassure.
艺术的功能是扰乱,而非安抚。
The greatest photographers are those who have learned to see the world as it is, and then to see it as it might be.
最伟大的摄影师是那些学会如实地看世界,然后再看它可能成为什么样的人。
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known.
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing. It is not seeing itself.
摄影首先是一种观看方式,而非观看本身。
The writer must be four people: the nut, the obsessor, the stylist, and the critic.
作家必须成为四种人:疯子、偏执狂、文体家和批评家。
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
沉默不可避免地仍然是一种言语形式。
The function of art is to make us see things, not to make us agree with the artist.
艺术的功能是让我们看到事物,而不是让我们同意艺术家的观点。
The greatest works are those that are still being read long after their authors have died.
最伟大的作品是那些在作者去世很久之后仍被阅读的作品。
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.