A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

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.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

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.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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