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

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

I have never painted a recent picture.

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.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

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.