"I should be satisfied with the Demeter yonder, and you, too, probably, if--entirely apart from that--I had only succeeded fully and entirely in making her an individual--that is, a clearly outlined, distinct personality.

This, you have often told me, is just wherein I am usually most successful.
But here, I admit, I am baffled.

Demeter hovered before me as a kindly dispenser of good gifts, a faithful, loving wife.

Daphne's head expresses this; but in modelling the body I lost sight of the whole creation.

While, for instance, in my fig-eater, every toe, every scrap of the tattered garments, belongs to the street urchin whom I wished to represent, in the goddess everything came by chance as the model suggested it, and you know that I used several.