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.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

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

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