...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.