“Everything you can imagine is real.”

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.