What Is Commonly Called Ugliness In Nature

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!

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

The Human Body Is First And Foremost A Mirror To The Soul And Its Greatest Beauty Comes From That.

If The Artist Only Reproduces Superficial Features As Photography Does, If He Copies The Lineaments Of A Face Exactly, Without Reference To Character, He Deserves No Admiration. The Resemblance Which He Ought To Obtain Is That Of The Soul.

Even With All The Documents, You Can Never Forge Nature