I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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.

Black is the queen of colours.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Patience is also a form of action.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.