If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
I am still learning. (at age 87)
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Genius is eternal patience.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
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.
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
I am always learning.
Patience is eternal genius
As you give out, so shall you receive.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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