Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

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

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

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.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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

Sometimes, I think how stupid I was yesterday. Then I look at people who still are, even today!

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

The best money I made was panhandling.