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.

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

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

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.