One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

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.

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

You should see it, ” he said. “V for Vendetta, I mean.”“Okay, ” I said. “I’ll look it up.”“No. With me. At my house, ” he said. “Now.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.

Nothing cannot exist forever.