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

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.

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

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.