Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.