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.

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

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

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.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

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.