When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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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 !
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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.
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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 !
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All critics should be assassinated.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
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