Augustus Saint-Gaudens Professions : Sculptor Born : March 1, 1848 Died : August 3, 1907 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Augustus Saint-Gaudens What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens salad insanity 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. Augustus Saint-Gaudens paris surprising wonderful For we constantly deal with practical problems, with molders, contractors, derricks, stone-men, ropes, builders, scaffoldings, marble assistants, bronze-men, trucks, rubbish men, plasterers, and what-not else, all the while trying to soar into the blue. Augustus Saint-Gaudens perseverance blue trying Similar Authors Andrea Zittel sculptor Auguste Rodin sculptor Augusta Savage sculptor Antony Gormley sculptor Anthony Caro sculptor Anish Kapoor sculptor All Authors