Trifles Make Perfection But Perfection Is Not

For Those Who Feel It, Nothing Makes The Soul So Religious And Pure As The Endeavor To Create Something Perfect; For God Is Perfection, And Whoever Strives After It, Is Striving After Something Divine. True Painting Is Only The Image Of The Perfection Of God, A Shadow Of The Pencil With Which He Paints, A Melody, A Striving After Harmony.

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.

He Who Does Not Master The Nude Cannot Understand The Principles Of Architecture.

Carving Is Easy, You Just Go Down To The Skin And Stop.

It Is Therefore Indisputable That The Limbs Of Architecture Are Derived From The Limbs Of Man.