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.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

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.

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.

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.