‘The sculpture of Laurens is, for me, more than any other, a veritable projection of himself in space, a little bit like a shadow in three dimensions. His very manner of breathing, of touching, of feeling, of thinking became an object, became a sculpture...The least part of his sculpture has passed and repassed through the sensibility of its creator, becoming like a very part of this sensibility. Laurens advances on his oeuvre only with this absolute control and never seeks to go beyond it. The dimensions, the proportions, the movement of the sculpture is established, becomes clearer and is determined finally in accordance with this same profound and complex sensibility.’