Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.