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"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
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"Every great soul was inspired by another great soul."

"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."

"The secret to success is belief and hard work."

"Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us."

"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

"Strive toward what you know you must achieve, in confident & courageous manner."

"Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself."

"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."

"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."

"The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops."
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"I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism."


"Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid."


"At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution."


"I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not."


"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole."
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