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

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

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

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.

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.

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