Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.