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.

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

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

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