The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.