He who follows another will never overtake him

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.

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.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.