In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week, In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.