For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine. — 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
