Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
The artist has only to trust his eyes.
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.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.