An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.