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

I am still learning. (at age 87)

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

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

Nature did all things well

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.