My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

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

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.