[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.