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 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

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

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

A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

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