The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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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.

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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

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I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

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You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

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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.

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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

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