If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so
wonderful at all.
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.
Genius is eternal patience.
The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,
as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,
it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,
and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.