All Michelangelo Quotes
- Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Art
- Genius is eternal patience. Art
- What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more… Beautiful
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Art
- A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Art
- If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. All
- Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Art
- Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. Bear
- If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Been
- I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my… Art
- Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Accomplish
- Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do… Age
- I live and love in God's peculiar light. Faith
- My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. Beauty
- Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. All
- There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. Greater
- If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back… Beauty
- The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value… Anorexia
- Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. Art
- I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven,… Deprived
- It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. Art
- Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. Carving
- From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. All
- I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. All
- Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. Consorts