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.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

All critics should be assassinated.

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

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !