I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.