The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

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

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.