It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
From Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
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.
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
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?
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