The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.