Sculpture Is Made By Taking Away, While

Perfection Is No Small Thing, But It Is Made Up Of Small Things.

Painting And Sculpture, Labour And Good Faith, Have Been My Ruin And I Continually Go From Bad To Worse. Better It Would Have Been For Me If I Had Set Myself To Making Matches In My Youth. I Should Not Be In Such Distress Of Mind.

Let It Be Enough For You To Have Bread And Live Virtuously And Poorly Like Christ, As I Do Here. I Live Meanly And Don't Bother About Life Or Honor ... And I Live With The Greatest Toil And A Thousand Worries. It Is Now About 15 Years Since I Had A Happy Hour.

A Man Paints With His Brains And Not With His Hands.

However Rich I May Have Been, I Have Always Lived Like A Poor Man.