You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

In the end there is only Matisse.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.