The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

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.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.