We are all born marked for evil.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

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.

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.

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

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.