Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Everything I am seems to be inside my awareness, rather than my awareness being inside of me.

A righteous husband is a responsible husband.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?