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

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.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

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

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.