Creation begins with vision.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

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.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

To arrive is to be in prison.