If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !.

An original is a creation motivated by desire..

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this ….

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea..

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in exi….

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else..

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society..

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea..