- "Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
- "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
- "Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly."
- "Genius is eternal patience. "
- "I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
- "I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free."
- "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
- "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
- "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
- "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
- "There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
- "After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become."
- "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
- "A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
- "What do you despise? By this you are truly known."
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