Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

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

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.