I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
I am still learning.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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...
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Genius is eternal patience.