I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

We are all born marked for evil.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

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.