"The artist is merely a machine to register movements."

"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…"

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."

"I'm a worker who enjoys the basest of tasks. These rough hands that now work the block also mix the plaster."

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