I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

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.

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

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.