I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.