“Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.

We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs — and the best — he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.