Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

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

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop