Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Instantaneity is photography.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

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.

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.