What Is Commonly Called Ugliness

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.

Nobody Does Good To Men With Impunity.

I Choose A Block Of Marble And Chop Off Whatever I Don't Need.

Even With All The Documents, You Can Never Forge Nature

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 Minutely, The Result Will Be Flat And Without Character... The Artist On The Contrary, Sees; That Is To Say, His Eye, Grafted On His Heart, Reads Deeply Into The Bosom Of Nature.