When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

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

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

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

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.

To arrive is to be in prison.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.