The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

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

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

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

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

The nude alone is well dressed

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop