Augustus Saint-Gaudens quotes:

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.