I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

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

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.

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.

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

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Nourish your Nature. Be who you are meant to be.

If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven!

This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.

I always knew what I was doing.

If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.