All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live