...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
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.
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Another word for creativity is courage.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.