The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

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

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.