It is too evident that if the drawing is bad, the color false, the deepest emotion must fail to express itself. - Auguste Rodin

To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature.

I am not a rhetorician, but a man of action.

When I was quite young, as far back as I remember, I drew, but the gift is nothing without the will to make it worth while. The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.