Trifles Make Perfection, And Perfection Is No

Patience Is Eternal Genius

Art Is A Jealous Thing; It Requires The Whole And Entire Man.

Painting And Sculpture, Labour And Good Faith, Have Been My Ruin And I Continually Go From Bad To Worse. Better It Would Have Been For Me If I Had Set Myself To Making Matches In My Youth. I Should Not Be In Such Distress Of Mind.

A Beautiful Thing Never Gives So Much Pain As Does Failing To Hear And See It.

The Sculpture Is Already Complete Within The Marble Block, Before I Start My Work. It Is Already There, I Just Have To Chisel Away The Superfluous Material.