I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.