Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.