The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
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.
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
No great work of art is ever finished.
Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
I am always learning.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
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.
Genius is eternal patience.
He who follows another will never overtake him
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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