Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

When you give all your power to the powers that be, you take away the powers of thee.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.