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

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

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

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.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

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