"If my modelling is bad, if I make faults in anatomy, if I misinterpret movement, if I am ignorant of the science which animates marble, the critics are right a hundred times. But if my figures are cor…"

"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…"

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

"The true artist is a child who observes and is amazed."

"The body is the soul, the soul is the body."