To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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.
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.