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

"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."

"The artist must see the whole, not the parts."

"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…"

"The greatest joy of my life is to work."