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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

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

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I am still learning.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Genius is eternal patience.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

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.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

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?

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

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