Inspiration Quotes by Michelangelo

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

— Michelangelo

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

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

— Michelangelo

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

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

If the wine is not good, then throw it out!

— Michelangelo

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

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

— Michelangelo

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

To touch is to give life.

— Michelangelo

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

— Michelangelo

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

— Michelangelo

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

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