The Body Always Expresses The Spirit Whose

There Is A Continual Exchange Of Ideas Between All Minds Of A Generation. Journalists, Popular Novelists, Illustrators, And Cartoonists Adapt The Truths Discovered By The Powerful Intellects For The Multitude. It Is Like A Spiritual Flood, Like A Gush That Pours Into Multiple Cascades Until It Forms The Great Moving Sheet Of Water That Stands For The Mentality Of A Period.

The Modes Of Expression Of Men Of Genius Differ As Much As Their Souls, And It Is Impossible To Say That In Some Among Them, Drawing And Color Are Better Or Worse Than In Others.

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.

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!

It Is The Artist Who Is Truthful And It Is Photography Which Lies, For In Reality Time Does Not Stop