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Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.