The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

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.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

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.