Medardo Rosso

The true artist sees with the heart.

Form emerges from atmosphere.

Life's beauty is in its transience.

Sculptors who finish everything miss the poetry.

My figures live in the viewer's imagination.

Shadow is as important as light in creation.

Art without mystery is mere decoration.

I chase the mirage of reality.

The incomplete invites completion by the eye.

In Paris, I found the light of truth.

Sculpture is music frozen in space.

Details destroy the dream.

My work is a whisper of life.

To see is to feel the vibration.

The street teaches more than the academy.

Bronze captures the soul's flicker.

Art is the echo of sensation.

I sculpt impressions, not objects.

Life's essence is in the blur of motion.

Finish nothing; suggest everything.