I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

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.

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

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 avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.