I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
The artist has only to trust his eyes.
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.