To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.