Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.