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

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

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

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

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

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.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.