God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.