With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

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.

Critique by creating.

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.

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.