Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.