"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live."

"Why then should I clothe him to make him look ridiculous in the foolish masculine fashions of his time? There is nothing more banal than these statues of recent notabilities, to be seen in every big c…"

"The art of drawing is the art of seeing."

"My liberation from academicism was via Michelangelo. He is the bridge by which I passed from one circle to another."

"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…"