If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

As you give out, so shall you receive.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.