"In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist."

"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

"Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."

"It is a humble truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."