Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.