Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.