A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo