In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

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.

Never trust an armed police officer.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

For some players, luck itself is an art

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The basic and essential human is the woman.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.