He who follows another will never overtake him
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.
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.
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
As you give out, so shall you receive.
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.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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?
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
I am still learning. (at age 87)
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.
Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor ... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
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