The nude alone is well dressed.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture..

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams..

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence..

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!.

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into….

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience..

The artist has only to trust his eyes..

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by s….

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age..

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child..

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open b….

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conv….

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animate….

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with a….

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure..

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature..

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings..

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling..

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning..

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.