Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.