The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

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.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

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

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop