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

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

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

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.