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

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

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