Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

I am still learning. (at age 87)

And still I am learning.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.