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.

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

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

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 !

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