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.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
He who follows another will never overtake him
Nature did all things well
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.