The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

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.

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.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

History is hallmark of humanity.

The more you know the less you talk.

I've always written down how I feel.

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

You better be able to defend it after the attack - so don't stretch it. In other words, if the guy's guilty of A and B, don't make him guilty of A, B, and C. That's what a lot of people do.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.