Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.