Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

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.

When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands.

Two things are infinite

I see you, I see others and I want to see you more.

Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.