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

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

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.

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.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

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.