"The artist must have a profound sense of the visible."

"I'm a worker who enjoys the basest of tasks. These rough hands that now work the block also mix the plaster."

"What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs, with his cl…"

"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."

"The greatest joy of my life is to work."