"I am a worker, not a dreamer."

"Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump."

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

"People have often accused me of having made erotic sculptures. I have never made a sculpture for the sake of the erotic element."

"If my modelling is bad, if I make faults in anatomy, if I misinterpret movement, if I am ignorant of the science which animates marble, the critics are right a hundred times. But if my figures are cor…"