A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. |
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. |
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. |
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. |
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. |
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. |
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop |
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. |
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts |
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. |
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it |
Everything hurts. |
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. |
Genius is eternal patience. |
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. |