I am always learning.

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

And still I am learning.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.