“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.”

“Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.”

“You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire . . . The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy. --Michelangelo on the dead.”

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”