Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

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

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I’d like to be the moon in your sky.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.