Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

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

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.