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 More Quotes by Augustus Saint-Gaudens More Quotes From Augustus Saint-Gaudens What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens salad insanity art 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