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

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

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

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

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