Cutting Quote by Bill Walton

“imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the…

— Sean Patrick

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

— Bob Dylan

“I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free. —Michelangelo”

— John G. Miller

“If Michelangelo had seen this in daylight with the sun streaming down from the glass dome, he'd have fallen on his knees and painted…

— Susan Ee

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...

— Auguste Rodin

“That's another thing that pisses me off about that Michelangelo statue of me in Florence. He's got me standing there uncircumcised! Who the fuck…

— Joseph Heller

“There is a story told about the sculptor Michelangelo. As he was chiseling the statue David out of a huge marble block, a young…

— Jeff Wheeler

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

— Quentin Crisp

“Michelangelo managed to join the preexisting flooring with his new ceiling design into a unique statement. The result was an uncanny illustration of the…

— Benjamin Blech

How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed…

— Pablo Picasso

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say:…

— Gianni Versace

“In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb.…

— Benjamin Blech