Michelangelo Block Quotations

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

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him