Good Painting Is The Kind That Looks

The Best Of Artists Has No Conception That The Marble Alone Does Not Contain Within Itself.

I Couldn't Give You Something Mediocre Even If That's All You Asked For.

Love Is A Beautiful Image Imagined Or Seen Within The Heart, The Friend Of Virtue And Gentility.

In Every Block Of Marble I See A Statue As Plain As Though It Stood Before Me, Shaped And Perfect In Attitude And Action. I Have Only To Hew Away The Rough Walls That Imprison The Lovely Apparition To Reveal It To The Other Eyes As Mine See It.

An Artist Must Have His Measuring Tools Not In The Hand, But In The Eye.