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

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

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.

Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.