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. |
It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand |
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish |
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. |
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. |
My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness |
Nature did all things well. |
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. |
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone |
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone |
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. |
The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do. |
The first man Adam became a living being. |
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 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. |