Michelangelo Quotes

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell.. view

By: Michelangelo

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up.. view

By: Michelangelo

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

By: Michelangelo

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short.. view

By: Michelangelo

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges... view

By: Michelangelo

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection... view

By: Michelangelo

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master... view

By: Michelangelo

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

By: Michelangelo

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand... view

By: Michelangelo

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... view

By: Michelangelo

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has... view

By: Michelangelo

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms.. view

By: Michelangelo

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted... view

By: Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle... view

By: Michelangelo

What do you despise? By this you are truly known... view

By: Michelangelo

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?.. view

By: Michelangelo

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes... view

By: Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness... view

By: Michelangelo

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows... view

By: Michelangelo

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts... view

By: Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself... view

By: Michelangelo

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

By: Michelangelo

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it... view

By: Michelangelo

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

By: Michelangelo

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

By: Michelangelo

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come... view

By: Michelangelo

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

By: Michelangelo

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course... view

By: Michelangelo

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born... view

By: Michelangelo

Genius is eternal patience... view

By: Michelangelo

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture... view

By: Michelangelo

I live in sin, to kill myself I live.. view

By: Michelangelo

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible... view

By: Michelangelo

I am still learning... view

By: Michelangelo

I live and love in God's peculiar light... view

By: Michelangelo

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint... view

By: Michelangelo

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop... view

By: Michelangelo

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all... view

By: Michelangelo

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish... view

By: Michelangelo