Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

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

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.