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

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

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.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.