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

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

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

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

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

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.