He who follows another will never overtake him
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.