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

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

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

Patience is eternal genius

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.