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

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.

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

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.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

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.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.