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.

Genius is eternal patience.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.