Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.