I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer like Diana Ross or Donna Summer or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
Genius is eternal patience.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
I am still learning.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
If we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death...
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to...
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than...
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with...
I am a poor man and of little worth who is laboring in that art that God has...
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain...
I cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble...
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by...
