The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.

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.

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.

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

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

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