If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.