I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

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

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

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

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.