Oh, Yes, I Was A Great Retoucher.

I Paint What Cannot Be Photographed, Something From The Imagination... I Photograph The Things I Don't Want To Paint, Things That Are Already In Existence.

Oh, Yes, I Was A Great Retoucher. A Retoucher Is An Esthetic Surgeon !

An Original Is A Creation Motivated By Desire. Any Reproduction Of An Originals Motivated Be Necessity. It Is Marvelous That We Are The Only Species That Creates Gratuitous Forms. To Create Is Divine, To Reproduce Is Human.

I Do Not Photograph Nature. I Photograph My Visions.

The Streets Are Full Of Admirable Craftsmen, But So Few Practical Dreamers.