Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Nature did all things well

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

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