Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
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.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!