No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

He who follows another will never overtake him

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

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

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.