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.

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 am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

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

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.