It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

The more technique there is, the less there is

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.