“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”

“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”