Michelangelo

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Michelangelo - Poem Fragment
You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.
Michelangelo - Poem Fragment
You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.

- Michelangelo