Genius is infinite painstaking.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

Genius is eternal patience.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.