Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I have only too much of a wife in this art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if they are naught, will live for a while. (on why he hadn’t married and started a family)

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand.