What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

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.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Black is the queen of colours.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.