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.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.