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… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old… — 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
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 lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was… — 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
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's… — 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
