You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

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

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.