Patience is also a form of action.

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

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

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

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

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.