Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

No great work of art is ever finished.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.