Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world a portion of its lost heart.