I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

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.

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.