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

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

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

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.

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 !