Michelangelo
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it." - Michelangelo
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we ... - Michelangelo
"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 a... - 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 ... - 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... - Michelangelo
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." - Michelangelo
"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven." - Michelangelo
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture." - Michelangelo
"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand." - Michelangelo
"The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows." - 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." - Michelangelo
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop." - Michelangelo
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth a... - Michelangelo
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." - 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." - Michelangelo
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell... - Michelangelo
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." - Michelangelo
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." - Michelangelo
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has." - Michelangelo
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself." - Michelangelo
"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but on... - Michelangelo
"What do you despise? By this you are truly known." - Michelangelo
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo
"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint." - Michelangelo
"Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." - Michelangelo
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." - 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 b... - Michelangelo
"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness." - Michelangelo