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

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.