If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
I am still learning. (at age 87)
Genius is eternal patience.
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Patience is eternal genius
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
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.
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
As you give out, so shall you receive.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
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?
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
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