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

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

I am still learning. (at age 87)

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.