"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.