Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would… — 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
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
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David. — 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
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
