It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

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

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

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

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.