Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.