The more simple we are, the more complete we become.
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
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.