I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.