All Michelangelo Quotes
- Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul. Acts
- There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… Ascending
- Art is a shadow of Divine perfection. Art
- No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life. Art
- So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of… Always Far
- Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… Better
- He who follows another will never overtake him Follows
- An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. Artist
- I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all… All
- True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. Art
- Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. Copies
- What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in… Afterward
- My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my… Beard
- If the wine is not good, then throw it out! Dissatisfaction
- I am no artist - please come and help me. Artist
- It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of… Attention
- How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. Color
- Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... Approve
- 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… Becomes
- In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion… Approach
- Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for… Bad
- Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. Appears
- The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low,… Achieve
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Angel
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Art