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

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.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

I am always learning.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.