"The beautiful is everywhere; it is not that which is lacking to our eye, but to our heart."

"The true artist is a child who observes and is amazed."

"It's quite simple, the day the public will recognise my sculptures and those of other young artists in my wake, the teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts will be turned upside down."

"What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs, with his cl…"

"I showed her where she would find gold, but the gold she found is all hers."