I paint when I cannot photograph.

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

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

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.

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

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

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.