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.

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

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

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

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

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.