Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and donโt waste time.
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.