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

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.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

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 was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.