In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

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

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

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.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

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

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.