Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and donโt waste time.
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.