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.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

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

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

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

I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !