Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

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

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

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.

Patience is also a form of action.

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