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.

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 would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

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

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

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.