I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

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

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

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

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

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