I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
I am no artist - please come and help me.
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