"We must enter into the spirit of the character [for making a portrait]: here the challenge is to place this figure in…"

"There is an intimate relationship between my pictorial [2-dimensional] and my sculptural work. I would never begin on…"

"My 'Pomone' live in a bright world, with their sunny disposition, full of humanity, of abundance, and of great sensua…"

"My equestrian statues express the torment caused by the events of this century. the restlessness of my horse increase…"

"The Romantic painters were already addicted to a cult of the horse as an aristocratic beast.. ..From Géricault and Co…"

"Until the end of the fascist era and of the war [World War 2.], I continued to hark back to the sober realism [in his…"

"I am no longer seeking, in my own equestrian figures, to celebrate the triumph of any victorious hero. On the contrar…"

"My equestrian figures are symbols of the anguish that I feel when I survey contemporary events. Little by little, my …"

"But I am no longer trying to formulate a stylised version of anxiety such as we find in the Laocoon group and in so m…"

"I had been born in an Earthly Paradise [in Tuscany, Italy] from which we all have expelled. Not so long ago a sculpto…"