I render marble as supple as wax.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I paint what I see, and I see what others overlook.

-- Itō Jakuchū

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

-- William James

Don't tell me I can't do it; don't tell me it can't be done.

-- Howard Hughes

Life swings like a pendulum back and forth between pain and boredom.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

To will oneself free is already to have freed oneself.

-- Simone de Beauvoir

Great things are not done without great people, and great people are great because they willed it.

-- Charles de Gaulle