The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.