Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Critique by creating.

Nature did all things well

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.