I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

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.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

I have never painted a recent picture.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

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