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 modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

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

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

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.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.