The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

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.

The nude alone is well dressed

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

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

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.