If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

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

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.