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

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

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

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.