People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies