Michelangelo Quotes
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
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As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
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Critique by creating.
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
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Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved.
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
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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 life as long as possible.
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However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
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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.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
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And still I am learning.
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The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
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Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
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A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him.
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You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.
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A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
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An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
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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 such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.
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The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.