And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.