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

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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

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.

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

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

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.