In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.