My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

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.

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

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

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !