One Paints With One's Head,

To Touch Is To Give Life.

The Marble Not Yet Carved Can Hold The Form Of Every Thought The Greatest Artist Has.

Whenever A Great Painter... Does A Work Which Appears To Be False And Lying, That Falsity Is Very True.

In Every Block Of Marble I See A Statue As Plain As Though It Stood Before Me, Shaped And Perfect In Attitude And Action. I Have Only To Hew Away The Rough Walls That Imprison The Lovely Apparition To Reveal It To The Other Eyes As Mine See It.

What One Has Most To Work And Struggle For In Painting Is To Do The Work With A Great Amount Of Labour And Sweat In Such A Way That It May Afterward Appear, However Much It Was Laboured Upon, To Have Been Done Almost Quickly And Almost Without Any Labour, And Very Easily, Although It Was Not.