Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical.
Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”
"There is a 3rd basic way to use the camera - a way that I term "The Transcendance of the object" - a way that is not directly dependent on abstraction (which is only an intellectual game); whereas, this is not. Instead, this way is intra kit lee involved with intuitive and subliminal perceptions, that go deeply into the subconscious mind - into the primal roots of humanity, into the world that forms the very matrix for all artistic creation. This way has two fundamental tributaries: that which we call anthropomorphic vision, and the other, now denoted as surrealism..."
"It should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet of painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself."