“Questioning the idea of Art with a capital ‘A’, photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower,

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.

Neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.”

Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art – when it is in the hands of artists.”

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science.

In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students,

Deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media

It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.

The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

We are not panicking because we know that Islamic State cannot conquer the capital.

We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.