Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival..

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weigh….

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determine….

I have never painted a recent picture..

All critics should be assassinated..

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That ….

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration..

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow..

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species ….

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer..

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion..

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers..

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection..

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I ….

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions..

I never knew what I was doing until I was done..

Reality is fabricated out of desire..

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses..

To create is divine, to reproduce is human..

I paint when I cannot photograph..

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art..