Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Nature did all things well

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.