After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

To touch is to give life.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.