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

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

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

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

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.

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.