He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
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.