- Stanislav Szukalski: If you want to create new things for this world, never listen to anybody. You have to suck your wisdom, all the knowledge, from your thumb. Your own self.
- Glenn Bray: But Stas says, "I want to show this in the book because you should have... pictures of anybody that changes history." He says, "That's why we have carvings of Nero. That's why we know what Hitler looks like. Don't forget these assholes."
- Stanislav Szukalski: Art cannot be proper. Art must be exaggerated. Bend down till your spine cracks. You must exaggerate the likeness.
- Hecht, Ben: A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
- James Kagel: The advice that he gave me, it almost seemed religious. And most of the people I work with are not very religious. He told me that, before you sculpt, you should get down on your knees, almost in prayer to it.
- Stanislav Szukalski: Is this bill collectors? Come in, I have something very important to tell you. Uh... In fact, about history.
- Stanislav Szukalski: I was the most renowned sculptor in America. I never was referred to any other way, except as genius.