Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
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.