Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

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.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.