A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.