If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. — 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
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will… — 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
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break… — 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 Image
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 Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share 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… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
