Status Updates From Le mystère de l'être

In itself sacrifice seems madness; but a deeper reflection...enables us to recognize and to approve it as a worthy madness. We understand that if a man were to shrink from such madness, he would falling below himself.

The photographer cannot himself be strictly compared to his own camera, his own purely objective apparatus for recording views; even he in so far he is endowed with a certain inwardness, has in an indefinable sense something more about him than there is about his camera, however perfect an instrument it may be

"Contemplation is possible only for somebody who had made sure of his grip on reality; for somebody who floats on the surface of reality, or who, as it were, skims over the thin ice of that surface on skates, for the amateur or the dilettante, the contemplative act is inconceivable." Contemplation is therefore considered as a mode of participation.