We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

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

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.

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.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

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.