art Quotes

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 saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

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