1. “The artist has only to trust his eyes.”
2. “An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of the nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.”
3. “The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.”
4. “One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.”
5. “You must always work.”
6. “The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much s their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color ar better or worse than in others.”
7. “Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of masters.”
8. “There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.”
9. “It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop.”
10. “Sculpture is the art of the hole ad the lump.”
11. “Nobody does good to men with impunity.”
12. “There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.”
13. “True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”
14. “My drawings are result of my sculpture.”
15. “Black is the queen of all colors.”
16. “Even with all documents, you can never forge nature.”
17. “There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.”
18. “I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.”
19. “The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
20. “True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”
21. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!”
22. “Patience is a form of action.”
23. “The human body is the first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.”
24. “He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.”
25. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
26. “I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
27. “Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature an which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
28. “Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.”
29. “In art immortality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.”
30. “Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.”
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