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

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

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

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.