I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.