The Artist Is The Confidant Of Nature,

As Paradoxical As It May Seem A Great Sculptor Is As Much A Colourist As The Best Painter, Or Rather The Best Engraver. He Plays So Skillfully With All The Resources Of Relief, He Blends So Well The Boldness Of Light With The Modesty Of Shadow, That His Sculptures Please One, As Much As The Most Charming Etchings.

The Sculptor Represents The Transition From One Pose To Another He Indicates How Insensibly The First Glides Into The Second. In His Work We Still See A Part Of What Was And We Discover A Part Of What Is To Be.

The Realities Of Nature Surpass Our Most Ambitious Dreams.

In Front Of The Model I Work With The Same Will To Reproduce Truth As If I Were Making A Portrait. I Do Not Correct Nature, I Incorporate Myself Into It; It Directs Me. I Can Only Work With A Model. The Sight Of Human Forms Nourishes And Comforts Me.

Art Is The Pleasure Of A Spirit That Enters Nature And Discovers That It Too Has A Soul.