The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

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

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

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.