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.

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

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

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

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

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.

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