The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

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.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

The only person you resent is yourself.

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.