Medardo Rosso

I model in light, not in marble.

The impression is everything; the detail is nothing.

Sculpture should suggest, not describe.

My work is born from the street, from life as it is.

Light and shadow are the true forms.

I seek the soul behind the form.

Art is not imitation, but interpretation of sensation.

The fragment is the whole.

In sculpture, movement is in the air around it.

I paint with wax and bronze to capture fleeting moments.

Reality is in the vibration of light on surfaces.

Do not finish the work; let it breathe.

The street child is more alive than any posed model.

Sculpture dies when it becomes too precise.

My ecstasies are in the incomplete.

Light models the form better than the chisel.

Impressionism in sculpture means capturing the instant.

The soul of art is in suggestion, not definition.

I work to evoke emotion, not to copy life.

Bronze weeps when overpolished.