If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

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.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.