Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

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.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.