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

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

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.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

As you give out, so shall you receive.

Nature did all things well