Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.