"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."

"My liberation from academicism was via Michelangelo. He is the bridge by which I passed from one circle to another."

"The artist is the confidant of nature, the interpreter of her moods and the revealer of her secrets."

"Why then should I clothe him to make him look ridiculous in the foolish masculine fashions of his time? There is nothing more banal than these statues of recent notabilities, to be seen in every big c…"

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."