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• "A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
• "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
• "Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
• "Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
• "Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts."
• "Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
• "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
• "Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
• "From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
• "Genius is eternal patience."
• "Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
• "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."
• "I am still learning."
• "I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."
• "I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are."
• "I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
• "I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
• "I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
• "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
• "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."