“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

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

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

All critics should be assassinated.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

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

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.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.