Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. - Michelangelo

The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own cannot make good use of works by others.

A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti, S'assembra ogni beltà che qua si vede, Più c'altra cosa alle persone accorte;