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

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.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

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