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

The nude alone is well dressed

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

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

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

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature