[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

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)

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

The rosary is spiritual medicine.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.