He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. — 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
Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all… — 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
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
