In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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.