The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.