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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

I think in today's world we've discovered what works, silhouette-wise. A body's a body.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.