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.

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

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

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

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

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.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !