I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
Instruction is important.
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. , that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.
Hunger not to have, but to be
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
[On U. S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.
. . . what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.