Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

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.

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.