Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

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)

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

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.