"Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure."
"An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye."
"The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art."
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
~~~~Michelangelo~~~~