When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

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.

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

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.