One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Patience is also a form of action.

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.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

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

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.