“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.”

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.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

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

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.

If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.

At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.

There’s no point in being complete on the outside when you’re broken in the inside.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next. It is still unwritten.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.