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

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

All critics should be assassinated.

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

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 !