Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.