No great work of art is ever finished.
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.