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

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.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.