A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

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

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

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

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

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

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.