“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“Insight is the first condition of Art.”

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

“Art is born of humiliation.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”

“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

“Through a painting we can see the whole world.”

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”