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

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

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

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.