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.

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.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

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

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

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

I invent nothing, I rediscover.