Michelangelo Quotes
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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
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Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?
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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 into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
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I am no artist - please come and help me.
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I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
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Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
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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 is the best and safest course.
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If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
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Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.