My Drawings Are The Result Of My

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 Book, All The Inner Truth.

There Is Nothing Ugly In Art Except That Which Is Without Character, That Is To Say, That Which Offers No Outer Or Inner Truth.

In Art, Immorality Cannot Exist. Art Is Always Sacred.

The Only Principle In Art Is To Copy What You See. Dealers In Aesthetics To The Contrary, Every Other Method Is Fatal.

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 All The Resources Of Relief, He Blends So Well The Boldness Of Light With The Modesty Of Shadow, That His Sculptures Please One, As Much As The Most Charming Etchings.