 The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. |
| 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? |
| If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. |
| From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. |
| A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. |
| It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. |
| Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. |
| The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. |
| 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 we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. |
| The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. |
| 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 have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. |
| Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. |
| Genius is eternal patience. |
| Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. |
