Genius is eternal patience.

There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

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 best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

I am always learning.