Intelligence Is Really A Kind Of Taste:

When Cartier-bresson Goes To China, He Shows That There Are People In China, And That They Are Chinese.

Few Ever See What Is Not Already Inside Their Heads.

Photography Is A Kind Of Overstatement, A Heroic Copulation With The Material World.

The Work Of Art Itself Is . . . A Vibrant, Magical, And Exemplary Object Which Returns Us To The World In Some Way More Open And Enriched.

The Taste For Worst-case Scenarios Reflects The Need To Master Fear Of What Is Felt To Be Uncontrollable. It Also Expresses An Imaginative Complicity With Disaster.