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

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.