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.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

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.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

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 !

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.