I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

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

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

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.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

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.

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.