I Invent Nothing, I Rediscover.

I Know Very Well That One Must Fight, For One Is Often In Contradiction To The Spirit Of The Age.

I Believe That Photography Can Create Great Works Of Art, But Hitherto It Has Been Extraordinarily Bourgeois And Babbling. (1908)

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.

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.

You Must Always Work.