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.

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

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

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

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

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

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.