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

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character….

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our ….

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth..

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred..

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still se….

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nu….

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evade….

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the….

Patience is also a form of action..

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908).

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters..

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression….

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the ….

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty..

Nobody does good to men with impunity..

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minu….

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy..

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need..

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist..

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature.