Michelangelo Quotes
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However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
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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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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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Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
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Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
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And still I am learning.
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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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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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A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
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The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
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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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Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
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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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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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I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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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 widowers.
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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, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
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If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
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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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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.