The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

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.

The nude alone is well dressed