Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)
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.