The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

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

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

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.