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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

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

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

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

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

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.