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 effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

All critics should be assassinated.