The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are be….

You must always work..

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed..

The more simple we are, the more complete we become..

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that..

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul..

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life..

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

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages..

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely..

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creat….

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal..

Black is the queen of colours..

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god..

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearance….

I invent nothing, I rediscover..

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth..

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words..