Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its own ends. It draws its lifeblood, so to speak, from this reservoir of accumulated experience

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.