I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.