A Nude By Degas Is Chaste. But

A Time Will Come When People Will Think I Am A Myth, Or Rather Something The Newspapers Have Made Up.

There Are Tonalities Which Are Noble And Others Which Are Vulgar, Harmonies Which Are Calm Or Consoling, And Others Which Are Exciting Because Of Their Boldness.

Oh Mysterious World Of All Light, Thou Hast Made A Light Shine Within Me, And I Have Grown In Admiration Of Thy Antique Beauty, Which Is The Immemorial Youth Of Nature.

Lacking Many Of The Essential Implements, It Irritated Me To Be Reduced To Impotence In The Face Of Artistic Projects To Which I Had Passionately Given Myself.

Nail Up Some Indecency In Plain Sight Over Your Door; From That Time Forward You Will Be Rid Of All Respectable People,the Most Insupportable Folk God Has Created.