Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.