A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

Genius is infinite painstaking.