Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

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

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

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

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 importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.