Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than...
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with...
I am a poor man and of little worth who is laboring in that art that God has...
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain...
I cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble...
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by...
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
