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

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 am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

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.