“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.”

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”

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

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

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

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

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

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”