The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

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.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.