Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.