It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo Copy Share
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other. — Michelangelo Copy Share
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away… — Michelangelo Copy Share
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat… — Michelangelo Copy Share
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo Copy Share
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention… — Michelangelo Copy Share
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away… — Michelangelo Copy Share
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend… — Michelangelo Copy Share
