“In the profession which I practice, the pleasure of creating has always been the principal argument in its favour. For that reason, I cannot remember a single occasion on which my work has been conditioned by a client’s demands at the expense of my own ‘research.’ I do not make a distinction between my so called ‘studio’ work and graphic work said to be ‘commercial.’ I try, through my profession, to defer to the essential.
My work does not in any case, need today’s abundant and sophisticated techniques. For twenty years, all my work has been carried out on the basis of photographic montage and leaves my studio without any prior commercial agreement. Further-more, my intervention as ‘visualist’ has never occurred in relation to any object or action that I did not believe in. It is true that the number of my clients is limited and that I concentrate mainly on cultural themes… I try to carry on working.”
— Roman Cieślewicz