Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
Critique by creating.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
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?
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
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.
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?