“I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.”

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.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order.

Obama’s economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.

We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough.

Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.