Sculpture Is Made By Taking Away, While

The Best Of Artists Has No Conception That The Marble Alone Does Not Contain Within Itself.

I Serve For The Love Of God And In Him Have All My Hope.

When They Asked Michelangelo How He Made His Statue Of David He Is Reported To Have Said, "it Is Easy. You Just Chip Away The Stone That Doesn't Look Like David.

Even If You Are Divine, You Don't Disdain Male Consorts.

Painting And Sculpture, Labour And Good Faith, Have Been My Ruin And I Continually Go From Bad To Worse. Better It Would Have Been For Me If I Had Set Myself To Making Matches In My Youth. I Should Not Be In Such Distress Of Mind.