There Should Be No Argument In Regard

I Grant You That The Artist Does Not See Nature As She Appears To The Vulgar, Because His Emotion Reveals To Him The Hidden Truths Beneath Appearances.

I Choose A Block Of Marble And Chop Off Whatever I Don't Need.

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 It; It Directs Me. I Can Only Work With A Model. The Sight Of Human Forms Nourishes And Comforts Me.

The Body Always Expresses The Spirit Whose Envelope It Is. And For Him Who Can See, The Nude Offers The Richest Meaning.

I Have Unbounded Admiration For The Nude. I Worship It Like A God.