“An original is a creation motivated by desire.”

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 !

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another!

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

I am nobody but myself.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.