Genius is eternal patience.
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
I am still learning. (at age 87)
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
I am always learning.
As you give out, so shall you receive.
Patience is eternal genius
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
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