Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give...

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only br...

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone...

A man paints with his brains and n...

The true work of art is but a shadow of t...

Trifles make perfection, and perfec...

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every tho...

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in...

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that...

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else th...

Faith in oneself is the best an...

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become som...