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.

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

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?

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

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 shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.