True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

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

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

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.