The More Simple We Are,

In Front Of The Model I Work With The Same Will To Reproduce Truth As If I Were Making A Portrait. I Do Not Correct Nature, I Incorporate Myself Into It; It Directs Me. I Can Only Work With A Model. The Sight Of Human Forms Nourishes And Comforts Me.

Where Did I Learn To Understand Sculpture? In The Woods By Looking At The Trees, Along Roads By Observing The Formation Of Clouds, In The Studio By Studying The Model, Everywhere Except In The Schools.

What Is Commonly Called Ugliness In Nature Can In Art Become Full Of Beauty.

As Paradoxical As It May Seem A Great Sculptor Is As Much A Colourist As The Best Painter, Or Rather The Best Engraver. He Plays So Skillfully With All The Resources Of Relief, He Blends So Well The Boldness Of Light With The Modesty Of Shadow, That His Sculptures Please One, As Much As The Most Charming Etchings.

Art Is Contemplation. It Is The Pleasure Of The Mind Which Searches Into Nature And Which There Divines The Spirit Of Which Nature Herself Is Animated.