The crude real will not by itself yield truth.
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!