1. “Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”
2. “The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
3. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
5. “There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
6. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
7. “Trifles makes perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
8. “Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
9. “A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”
10. “Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
11. The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the artist has.”
12. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
13. “Genius is eternal patience.”
14. “My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s loveliness.”
15. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
16. “No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.”
17. “The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes”
18. “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
19. “No great work of art is ever finished.”
20. “Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.”
21. “Genius is infinite painstaking.”
22. “He who follows another will never overtake him.”
23. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”
24. “Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.”
25. “Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding”
