You cannot penetrate events with reportage.
I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.
In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!
People are always misquoting me.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
After four tortured years, painting more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
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.