The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor’s hand can break the spell to free the figures.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Please don’t trouble yourself. God didn’t make us to abandon us.
Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.
Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
Cel ce iubirea-si ia drept arma, frange destin si ura, forta si mizerii.
Din ce e farmec si vremelnicie si indurare, raul meu se naste.
The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.
Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own cannot make good use of works by others.
I am still learning.” -Michelangelo late in his life.