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

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.