It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.