One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.