I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

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

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

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.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.