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

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

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.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.