The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

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