Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.