There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it. - Man Ray

l paint what cannot be photographed, and l photograph what l do not wish to paint. lf it is a portrait that interests me, a face, or a nude, I will use my camera. It is quicker than making a drawing or a painting. But if it is something I cannot photograph, like a dream or a subconscious impulse I have to resort to drawing or painting. To express what I feel I use the medium best suited to express that idea, which is also always the most economical one. l am not at all interested in being consistent as a painter, and object-maker or a photographer. I can use several different techniques, like the old masters who were engineers, musicians and poets at the same time. I have never shared the contempt shown by painters for photography: there is no competition involved, painting and photography are two media engaged in different paths. There is no conflict between the two.

You see, I try to walk the tightrope of accomplishment between the chasms of notoriety and oblivion.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.