Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.