An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.