Donatello

If you have faith, you will do things that are greater than you can imagine.

The true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

I have never made a statue that did not have a soul.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, the more significant and the more lasting will be the success.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can discover it.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I am still learning.

The sculptor must be a man of great patience, for he must work slowly and carefully, and he must not be discouraged by the difficulties he encounters.

The artist's hand is but the instrument of his soul.

A good sculpture has no need of a pedestal.

The greatest beauty is in simplicity.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.