There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

The nude alone is well dressed

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

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