Everything is dead while it lives.

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.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Everything is dead while it lives.

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.

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?